Patrick Durrell, a native of Canada, earned a bachelor’s degree in Astronomy from the University of Victoria and master’s and PhD degrees in Physics from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. He was a research associate at Pennsylvania State University before joining the YSU faculty in 2004. He also is director of YSU’s Ward Beecher Planetarium.
The background photograph on these two pages was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope and shows a dwarf galaxy that Professor Durrell helped discover. The inset photo at left shows the Hubble telescope.
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